* Former London pub manager Lee St Rose, is heading for the High Court with a claim that he was shot by police while jogging with a friend in a London park. He claims police on an armed stake-out at a pub – not the one where he worked – chased him and that during […]
LAW firms are slashing fees and even offering to work for nothing in order to win beauty parades, it is claimed. But the trend for short-term price cuts will buy turnover not profit and will eventually backfire against fee-desperate practices, says a leading City lawyer. David McIntosh, senior partner at Davies Arnold Cooper, told a […]
SIX Albanian lawyers are visiting a selection of legal institutions as part of a fact-finding visit to the UK starting this week. The officials, visiting the country for three weeks, aim to get a full picture of the British process of justice. Hosted by the Lord Chancellor’s Department, the visit includes trips to the Old […]
London-based Harbottle & Lewis has issued a writ for libel on behalf of its client, Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli. The writ, issued to the editor and publishers of Screen International, alleges the magazine’s latest edition published a story suggesting Zeffirelli is a fascist member of the Italian parliament. Harbottles senior partner Michael Bowler says […]
Legal publishers Butterworths has launched the latest version of Simon’s ‘Direct Tax Service’ in both CD-ROM format and in book form. The electronic version is part of the publisher’s ‘books on screen’ series, and replicates the format of the printed volumes. One disk contains the 11 volumes in the set covering income tax, corporation tax, […]
Fennell Betson reports The Society for Computers & Law is examining the future of electronic communications in the profession. A working party, chaired by James Behrens of 13 Old Square, is to report on the findings in June. A questionnaire on the extent and type of communication currently in use in the legal world is […]
* Daphne Thorn is scheduled to be tried at the Old Bailey on 3 April for murdering three of her children. The case was committed for trial from Barking, Essex.
Lloyd’s: reinsurance ruling. Duties of Lloyd’s member agents to Names’ syndicates. PJ Aiken & Ors v Stewart Wrightson Members Agency Ltd & Ors (The Pulbrook Syndicates) (Ch.D (Potter J) Summary: Eleven consolidated actions by 378 Lloyd’s Names who were members of Lloyd’s Syndicates Nos.333, 334, 335, 426 and 427 (‘the syndicate’) for the 1985 underwriting […]
DAVID JOHN KELL-EGHER, 45, admitted 1976, practised on own account as King & Co, Oldham, Lancashire, struck off and ordered to pay u2,160 costs. Allegations substantiated he practised without a current practising certificate, wrongly drew client money and used client money for own purposes, failed to keep properly written accounts, failed to deliver accountant’s reports […]
I read with interest the letter from David McIntosh in your issue of 25 February. There is a world of difference between accepting certain basic principles on the one hand and, on the other, apparently deliberately making attempts, in a public forum, to lay stress on practices, whether they are common or not, which are […]
The new Courts Services agency and its first head Michael Huebner, according to the agency’s corporate plan, face the twin challenges of improving quality of service while closing the gap between civil business income and expenditure. But the programme for the agency is the standard government model of more efficiency through more cuts. Huebner says […]
The Trainee Solicitors’ Group (TSG) claimed last week that the Law Society makes a profit from students on the legal practice course. The TSG said that figures produced by the Law Society revealed that the Law Society may have made a £1m profit from students since the course was introduced in 1993.